New Horizons at Kennedy Space Center in 2005Pluto by New Horizons Charon by New Horizons 486958 Arrokoth by New Horizons List of New Horizons topics is a list of topics related to the New Horizons spacecraft, an unmanned space probe launched 2006 to Pluto and beyond.
On January 19, 2006 it was launched directly into a solar-escape trajectory at 16.26 kilometers per second (58,536 km/h; 36,373 mph) from Cape Canaveral using an Atlas V version with 5 SRBs and Star 48B thirdstage .[1] New Horizons passed the Moon's orbit in just nine hours.[2] [3]
132524 APL , Distant observation target
15810 Arawn (1994 JR1), Distant observation target
2011 HM102 , Neptune Trojan considered as an observation target[4]
2011 KW48 , distant observation target
2014 MT69 , former candidate for New Horizons flyby.[5]
2014 OS393 , former potential flyby target
2014 PN70 , former potential flyby target
486958 Arrokoth , flyby on New Year's Day 2019
Alice (spacecraft instrument) , one of seven major instruments on New Horizons [6]
Alice Bowman , New Horizons staff
AJ-60A , solid rocket booster of which five were used in the New Horizons launch.[3]
Atlas V , New Horizons launch vehicle
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41 , launch site
Centaur (rocket stage) , New Horizons upper stage
Charon (moon) , Pluto's big moon
Common Core Booster , part of New Horizons first stage launcher
Clyde Tombaugh , discovered Pluto in 1930 from Lowell Observatory
Kirk (crater)
Kuiper belt , region from about 30-60 AU New Horizons explores
Lisa Hardaway , New Horizons staff
Long Range Reconnaissance Imager , one of seven major instruments on New Horizons [6]
GPHS-RTG , electrical and thermal heat source of New Horizons
Interplanetary dust cloud
Interplanetary medium , studied during Hibernation
Mongoose-V , CPU in New Horizons
NASA Deep Space Network , for New Horizons Earth radio communications
Nasreddin (crater)
New Frontiers program , NASA parent program of New Horizons
New Horizons 2 , design study for twin
Organa (crater)
Pluto , primary target of New Horizons
Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation , one of seven major instruments on New Horizons
Ralph , one of seven major instruments on New Horizons [6]
REX , one of seven major instruments on New Horizons [6]
Daniel Sarokon , NASA employee honored at New Horizons launch[7]
Star 48B , New Horizons 3rd stage
Alan Stern , New Horizons staff
SWAP , one of seven major instruments on New Horizons [6]
Tvashtar Paterae
Vader (crater) , crater observed by New Horizons
Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter , one of seven major instruments on New Horizons [6]
Venetia Burney , New Horizons instrument honorific, Burney proposed Pluto's name in 1930